The installation 'Inconvenient Bodies' brings attention to those with bodies that have become socially inconvenient, not just the old, the ill, or the infirm, but also those whose bodies do not comfortably fit the men/women categories as displayed on the signs outside public toilets. There are also those whose bodily functions are deemed shameful, the fear of ‘bleeding through’ when menstruation is particularly heavy, the countless homeless who
need access to public facilities in which to wash, sex workers, migrants, the list goes on. The installation 'Inconvenient Bodies' develops ideas and material processes worked with previously. Three chiffon panels printed with images of women’s public toilets in very poor condition are supported on a line of pink satin rope by six wooden washing line props, sanded and waxed to a high finish, like modernist designer furniture. A hoard of small copper coated plywood cut-outs of ‘ladies’ also inhabit the gallery space, these little objects could be easily overlooked, like those with bodies deemed inconvenient by society and culture.

About the artist:
Paula Chambers is an artist, academic and arts educator living and working in Yorkshire in the UK. She has exhibited widely including most recently the solo exhibitions Working Girls at The Whitaker, Lancashire and Not at Home at the Art House, Wakefield. Paula is Subject Leader for Sculpture on BA (Hons) Fine Art at Leeds Arts University. She has presented at national and international conferences on feminism, contemporary art and the domestic, has chapters included in Feminist Art Activisms and Artivisms, Feminist Visual Activism and the Body, and in An Artist and a Mother. Also journal articles published in the journal of Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, and in Performance/Research Journal (special issue On The Maternal).

www.paulachambers.co.uk

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Motor Ship HEIMATLAND
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10 179 Berlin-Mitte
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